do-support
noun1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The use of the auxiliary verb "do" in negative or interrogative English sentences that do not contain other auxiliaries.
- As we can see, ‘do-support’ is a frequently used construction in Modern English, that has no equal construction in German. We chose the topic of ‘do-support’ for our study since “[...]^([sic]) do-support is one of the main stumbling blocks”[…]2018, Janina Madlener, The Phenomenon of “do-support”: Problems of German Learners of English in a Linguistic Perspective, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1: